Stanislawa Tomczyk
a non-professional Polish Medium, was the subject of Dr.
Julien Ochorowicz's experiments in 1908-9 at Wisla, Poland. She was regularly
hypnotised by Dr Ochorowicz for therapeutic purposes and was controlled by an
entity "Little Stasia." She could produce movements without contact, stop the
movement of a clock in a glass case and influence a roulette to the extent that
the numbers chosen by the Medium turned up more often than justified by chance.
Dr Ochorowicz concluded that the physical movements are performed by rigid rays
projecting from the fingers of the Medium.

Stanislawa Tomczyk hypothesized that the physical movements were performed by rigid
"rays" projecting from the fingers of the Medium. The Medium's hands were
thoroughly examined and washed before each seance. A small object, such as a
ball, cork, matchbox, or scissors, was placed before her on a table. The Medium
then placed her fingers about six to eight inches from the sides of the object.
The object would move and eventually rise in the air, floating between the Medium's fingers on each side.

Sometimes investigators claimed to feel a subtle "thread," but it was a psychic
line of force, not a material thread. Ochorowicz stated: "I have felt this
thread on my hand, on my face, on my hair. When the Medium separates her hands
the thread gets thinner and disappears; it gives the same sensation as a
spider's web. If it is cut with scissors its continuity is immediately restored
… it is then seen to be much thinner than an ordinary thread." These
observations have a strong resemblance to the od, the claimed "odic force" of
Baron Karl von Reichen-bach, which sensitive individuals claimed to see in a
darkened room issuing from the fingertips. However, Tomczyk's phenomena took
place in good light.

"Little Stasia" was a mischievous entity who played many tricks on the medium.
She said herself that she was not the Spirit of any dead person.
Stanislawa Tomczyk
considered her, at first, as her double. This was Ochorowicz's opinion, too,
until he was shaken in this view by having obtained Little Stasia's photograph,
as announced by her, in an empty room with all light excluded, while the Medium
in a normal condition was with him in an adjoining room.

Theodore Flournoy witnessed a seance in Paris in 1909. It left him "in no doubt
as to the reality of simple telekinesis." However, at a later series of seances
at Geneva to which, besides Flournoy, Professors Clarapede, Cellerier, Batelli,
and Flournoy's son were invited, the expectations of the sitters were not
fulfilled. Please remember negativity can stop any physical phenomena and most
times does.

In 1910,
Stanislawa Tomczyk was investigated at the Physical Laboratory in Warsaw by a
group of scientists. She produced remarkable physical phenomena under strict
test conditions. Baron Schrenck-Notzing described the experiments in his
Physikalische Phenomene des Mediumismus, Munchen, 1920. Charles Richet quoted
his own observations in his book Traite de Metapsychique, (1922) (translated as
Thirty Years of Psychical Research, 1923).

In 1919,
Stanislawa Tomczyk married the distinguished British psychical researcher F H
Everard Feilding (1867-1936), became Mrs Fielding and seems to have discontinued
her publicised seances.